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Suggestions

Here are some ideas for projects related to what we have been working on or have planned. We are also very much interested in hearing your ideas. From these we can can formulate interesting research questions together. For a more general descriptions of topics see Summary below.

Forthcoming

  • Viktoria Filippatou. Finding meaning in a haystack: On How Vision and Language Models Process Figurative Language. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik. full text comging soon.

Recently completed

  • Dominik Künkele: Emergence of referring expressions through language games. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik. full text coming soon.
  • Kamaneh Akhavan: Generating route descriptions. Automatic generation of route descriptions with visual elements from graph. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. full text coming soon.
  • Bérénice Le Glouanec. "Move towards the big black piano": how fine-grained features affect the goal of navigation. Improving salient landmark features in an end-to-end system. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. full text.
  • Ekaterina Voloshina. On the interplay between text, vision and narrative: the case study of ViLBERT. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. full text.
  • Y. Emampoor.There’s a Microwave in the Hallway. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh. full text and here
  • A. Aruqi. Embodied question answering in robotic environment: Automatic generation of a synthetic question-answer data-set. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 28 2021. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Nikolai Ilinykh, examiner: Staffan Larsson, opponent: Catherine Viloria. full text
  • P. Pilipiec. Evaluating natural language processing (nlp) methods to extract knowledge from interview data for nlp project management. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philos- ophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2 2021. Examiner: Simon Dobnik; supervisors: Eleni Gregoromichelaki; opponent: Axel Almqvist.
  • T. Hoffmann. Quantum models for word- sense disambiguation. Master thesis, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, January 12 2021. Supervisor: Mats Granath, Simon Dobnik, and David Fitzek. full text
  • J. M. Cano Santín. Fast visual grounding in interaction: bringing few-shot learning with neural networks to an interactive robot. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Lin- guistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 18 2019. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Mehdi Ghanimifard, examiner: Aarne Ranta. full text and paper
  • V. Silfversparre. The red cup on your left: Reference, coreference and visual attention in visual dialogue. C-uppsats (bachelor’s thesis/extended essay), Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Sci- ence (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, January 12 2021. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik, examiner: Moa Ekbom. paper
  • X. Li. Corpus exploration and dialogue system design for a virtual librarian. Masters in language tech- nology (mlt), 15 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 5 2020. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Mehdi Ghanimifard, examiner: Staffan Larsson. full text
  • Y. A. Mohammed. Guesswhat?! from what we answered before: Improving the vqa task in goal- oriented games using the previous context of dialogue improving vqa task in goal-oriented games using the previous context of the dialogue. Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, February 3 2020. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik and Mehdi Ghanimifard, examiner: Staffan Larsson.
  • A. Matsson. Implementing perceptual semantics in type theory with records (ttr). Masters in language technology (mlt), 30 hec, Masters in Language Technology (MLT), Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 24 2018. Examiner: Peter Ljunglöf; supervisors: Simon Dobnik and Staffan Larsson; opponent: Axel Almqvist. full text and paper
  • A. Storckenfeldt. Categorisation of conversational games in free dialogue referring to spatial scenes. C- uppsats (bachelor’s thesis/extended essay), Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 2018. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik, examiner: Ylva Byrman. full text and paper
  • A. Åstbom. How function of objects affects geometry of spatial descriptions. A study of Swedish and Japanese. C-uppsats (bachelor’s thesis/extended essay), Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLOV), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, February 7 2017. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik, opponent: Linnea Strand, examiner: Christine Howes. paper
  • E. de Graaf. Learning objects and spatial relations with Kinect. Master’s thesis, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, June, 8th 2016. Supervisor: Simon Dobnik, examiner: Richard Johansson, opponent: Lorena Llozhi. full text, paper and paper
  • S. Chesney. TF-REL: Linguistically motivated term weighting: From relevance to keyword extraction. Master’s thesis, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. University of Gothen- burg, Gothenburg, Sweden, June, 13 2016. Examiner: Lars Borin; supervisors: Simon Dobnik, Magnus Sahlgren; opponent: Tessa Koelewijn.
  • S. Rødven Eide. Meaningful connections: On prolog, pengines and the semantic web. Master’s thesis, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, June, 13 2016. Examiner: Staffan Larsson; supervisors: Torbjörn Lager, Simon Dobnik; opponent: Anna Ehrlemark.

Paused

  • Jacob Coles: examining the effect of different geometric representations (2D vs 3D) for the task of image captioning and generation of longer texts
  • Linea Strand: dialogue turn topic classification on an under-resourced corpus of conversations of patrons with librarians in the Gothenburg City Library paper
  • Robert Rhys Thomas: application of corpus augmentation techniques to deal with a low-resource scenario of the library corpus paper

Older proposals

Projects that are no longer running but could be restarted, depending on the interest.